@jcruzx.bsky.social
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Like in the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, DHS might have gotten away with its false claims about Martinez were it not for the video evidence that contradicted its account.
DHS shot her and called her a “terrorist.” New videos show something different.
"It’s time to get aggressive," a Border Patrol agent said shortly before Marimar Martinez was shot five times.
www.motherjones.com
February 12, 2026 at 2:00 AM
Like in the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, DHS might have gotten away with its false claims about Martinez were it not for the video evidence that contradicted its account.
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This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.
More than 400 people, including hundreds of citizens, were “sorted” at gun point into racial and ethnic groups by 200 ICE agents who fired flash-bang grenades into cars with people inside, pointed guns at children & demanded their zip tied parents not comfort them. apple.news/Ausdx6kWtT0e...
Idaho families sue over immigration raid that swept up hundreds, including U.S. citizens — NBC News
About 400 people, including children and U.S. citizens, were detained for four hours while they were denied food and water in the raid, according to the lawsuit.
apple.news
February 12, 2026 at 2:26 AM
This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.
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Trump to direct Pentagon to buy buggy whips to revive horse&buggy industry.
Trump to direct Pentagon to buy muskets to revive musket industry.
Buggy whip and musket industries big donors to Trump.
www.reuters.com/business/ene...
Trump to direct Pentagon to buy muskets to revive musket industry.
Buggy whip and musket industries big donors to Trump.
www.reuters.com/business/ene...
Trump to direct Pentagon to buy coal to revive industry, Bloomberg News says
U.S. President Donald Trump is set to direct the Pentagon to use government funding and Pentagon contracts to sustain U.S. coal-fired power plants, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday, citing a White H...
www.reuters.com
February 11, 2026 at 5:57 AM
Trump to direct Pentagon to buy buggy whips to revive horse&buggy industry.
Trump to direct Pentagon to buy muskets to revive musket industry.
Buggy whip and musket industries big donors to Trump.
www.reuters.com/business/ene...
Trump to direct Pentagon to buy muskets to revive musket industry.
Buggy whip and musket industries big donors to Trump.
www.reuters.com/business/ene...
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Wild fact from @billmckibben.bsky.social's latest newsletter:
"The last colder-than-average month on planet earth was in February of 1985, which means that no one under the age of forty has ever known one."
"The last colder-than-average month on planet earth was in February of 1985, which means that no one under the age of forty has ever known one."
Notes on winter
When the world turns whimsical
billmckibben.substack.com
February 9, 2026 at 8:33 PM
Wild fact from @billmckibben.bsky.social's latest newsletter:
"The last colder-than-average month on planet earth was in February of 1985, which means that no one under the age of forty has ever known one."
"The last colder-than-average month on planet earth was in February of 1985, which means that no one under the age of forty has ever known one."
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Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century.
He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.
He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.
February 8, 2026 at 7:50 PM
Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century.
He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.
He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.
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TRIGGER WARNING, because here is a US Marshal from Trump‘s Gestapo Force in Memphis kicking a puppy today in the Whitehaven neighborhood and breaking its rib. They were serving a warrant and I guess BIG MAN got scared of the schnauzer.
(I didn’t take the video, the dog’s person did)
(I didn’t take the video, the dog’s person did)
February 6, 2026 at 4:20 AM
TRIGGER WARNING, because here is a US Marshal from Trump‘s Gestapo Force in Memphis kicking a puppy today in the Whitehaven neighborhood and breaking its rib. They were serving a warrant and I guess BIG MAN got scared of the schnauzer.
(I didn’t take the video, the dog’s person did)
(I didn’t take the video, the dog’s person did)
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Your suspicion was right.
Trump shut down the Kennedy Center out of pure embarrassment after the cancellations.
He’s betting we forget in two years.
In 2023 the Kennedy Center was in the black, pulling in $286M in revenue. And it reopened from a $250M renovation in 2019.
Trump shut down the Kennedy Center out of pure embarrassment after the cancellations.
He’s betting we forget in two years.
In 2023 the Kennedy Center was in the black, pulling in $286M in revenue. And it reopened from a $250M renovation in 2019.
February 5, 2026 at 11:59 PM
Your suspicion was right.
Trump shut down the Kennedy Center out of pure embarrassment after the cancellations.
He’s betting we forget in two years.
In 2023 the Kennedy Center was in the black, pulling in $286M in revenue. And it reopened from a $250M renovation in 2019.
Trump shut down the Kennedy Center out of pure embarrassment after the cancellations.
He’s betting we forget in two years.
In 2023 the Kennedy Center was in the black, pulling in $286M in revenue. And it reopened from a $250M renovation in 2019.
"Murderers and rapists!" Immigrants of all kinds commit fewer crimes in the U.S. than natural-born citizens. Undocumented immigrants have the lowest rates in all categories. Look it up. #Drumpf would have more success nabbing dangerous criminals if he randomly rounded up middle-aged white men.
February 5, 2026 at 9:18 PM
"Murderers and rapists!" Immigrants of all kinds commit fewer crimes in the U.S. than natural-born citizens. Undocumented immigrants have the lowest rates in all categories. Look it up. #Drumpf would have more success nabbing dangerous criminals if he randomly rounded up middle-aged white men.
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‘One officer told me that I "had no chance of returning to Minnesota" and that "the best thing for (me] is self-deportation." …
She offered me $2600 to self-deport.
I refused.
I wanted to talk to my attorney.
They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota.’
She offered me $2600 to self-deport.
I refused.
I wanted to talk to my attorney.
They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota.’
![…
25. This Cibola jail was horrible. It was cramped. I was chained up again.
The officers mocked
me and called me their enemy. They laughed at me. I was kept at the jail for what felt like around three hours. I wasn't given an explanation for why I was there.
26. Security
guards then put me on a bus. I think it was around January 27.
No one said
anything about where I was going. I was handcuffed. It felt like the middle of the night. It was freezing cold in the bus because the driver had the AC on. We had no jackets. The bus eventually took me back to El Paso in the carly morning of Tuesday, January 27th.
27. I was put in a cold cell where I had to sleep on the bare cement floor. Around 10 in the morning my cellmate asked to speak to an ICE officer. Three officers came into the cell so I had a chance to speak to them too. One officer told me that I "had no chance of returning to Minnesota" and that "the best thing for (me] is self-deportation." She told me that if I fought my case, I would spend two to three more months here in El Paso. She offered me $2600 to self-deport. I refused. I wanted to talk to my attorney. They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota. If I hadn't managed to talk to my attorney who told me a while back that I was ordered released. I might have given up at this point and signed the self-deportation forms because the conditions were so unbearable.
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30. When I was taken back to the detention center from the airport, after missing the flight, I overheard an ICE officer saying in English, "the judge in Minnesota wants this one back." I was put in a cold jail cell again until early next morning (January 28). But again no one had told me directly that a judge had ordered my release
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32. When I arrived in Minneapolis, I was handed off to ICE
… I had to sign lots of papers saying that I wasn't going to be a part of any "groups." I didn't know what they meant by "groups." They never told me why I was detained](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5cn3kbi4g5blrtahon34xbu4/bafkreiccqxmfncofjqinoveiqscwale2ox5xpiqt46veqjdh3jmimkrxhq@jpeg)
February 5, 2026 at 6:04 AM
‘One officer told me that I "had no chance of returning to Minnesota" and that "the best thing for (me] is self-deportation." …
She offered me $2600 to self-deport.
I refused.
I wanted to talk to my attorney.
They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota.’
She offered me $2600 to self-deport.
I refused.
I wanted to talk to my attorney.
They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota.’
"Democracy dies in darkness," as will my Amazon subscription, at least for a while. I hope you'll consider it, too,
February 5, 2026 at 9:05 PM
"Democracy dies in darkness," as will my Amazon subscription, at least for a while. I hope you'll consider it, too,
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Masked thugs on the streets.
Measles outbreaks across the nation.
Blatant government corruption.
Coverup of group of elite sex offenders.
Ruling party trying to rig elections.
Leader building grandiose monuments to himself.
Collapse of remnants of nonpartisan civil service.
Third world America.
Measles outbreaks across the nation.
Blatant government corruption.
Coverup of group of elite sex offenders.
Ruling party trying to rig elections.
Leader building grandiose monuments to himself.
Collapse of remnants of nonpartisan civil service.
Third world America.
February 4, 2026 at 12:21 AM
Masked thugs on the streets.
Measles outbreaks across the nation.
Blatant government corruption.
Coverup of group of elite sex offenders.
Ruling party trying to rig elections.
Leader building grandiose monuments to himself.
Collapse of remnants of nonpartisan civil service.
Third world America.
Measles outbreaks across the nation.
Blatant government corruption.
Coverup of group of elite sex offenders.
Ruling party trying to rig elections.
Leader building grandiose monuments to himself.
Collapse of remnants of nonpartisan civil service.
Third world America.
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happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.
February 3, 2026 at 4:19 PM
happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.
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This is wrong on so many levels. She doesn’t belong anywhere near the halls of power. Help me defeat her this fall. secure.actblue.com/donate/lauba...
February 1, 2026 at 8:16 PM
This is wrong on so many levels. She doesn’t belong anywhere near the halls of power. Help me defeat her this fall. secure.actblue.com/donate/lauba...
The National Geodetic Survey has lost ¼ of its workforce and is under a hiring freeze. You’d be surprised how their work is used: www.wired.com/story/trump-...
Trump Cuts Are Killing a Tiny Office That Keeps Measurements of the World Accurate
A tiny but crucial agency that maintains physical coordinates like latitude and longitude in the US is struggling as the Trump administration forces out federal employees.
www.wired.com
January 31, 2026 at 3:37 PM
The National Geodetic Survey has lost ¼ of its workforce and is under a hiring freeze. You’d be surprised how their work is used: www.wired.com/story/trump-...
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There is no reason any of these men need any of this gear. This entire situation is not only dangerous and illegal. It is absurd and stupid.
www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...
www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...
Video: How Battlefield Tech Was Used in Minneapolis
Our reporter Thomas Gibbons-Neff, who deployed twice to Afghanistan as a Marine and later was our Kabul bureau chief, looks at the battlefield technology used for an immigration arrest at a home in Mi...
www.nytimes.com
January 30, 2026 at 2:19 AM
There is no reason any of these men need any of this gear. This entire situation is not only dangerous and illegal. It is absurd and stupid.
www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...
www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...
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getting feds to say shit like this on camera with their face exposed is NUTS -- you can not reform this agency, everyone involved must go, there is no practical way to root out all of these guys
"You raise your voice, I erase your voice."
ICE in Minneapolis are erasing your rights.
Please share our new video of what's happening in our city. youtu.be/W1dyNcRGRXY
ICE in Minneapolis are erasing your rights.
Please share our new video of what's happening in our city. youtu.be/W1dyNcRGRXY
January 27, 2026 at 6:10 PM
getting feds to say shit like this on camera with their face exposed is NUTS -- you can not reform this agency, everyone involved must go, there is no practical way to root out all of these guys
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Minneapolis strong.
People like Angela Harrison, George Floyd's aunt, who said that in the wake of her nephew's death, "We didn’t know what to do, but one of the things that kept us together was a unity. I still see the unity.”
Ride Along With George Floyd's Aunt
YouTube video by Mother Jones
www.youtube.com
January 27, 2026 at 8:30 PM
Minneapolis strong.
Bovino's displacement is fraction of what needs to be done to replace ICE with something more humane - chump change. It needs to be ripped apart, root and branch. Any reform ought to begin with acknowledgement that immigrants of all kinds commit fewer crimes than born U.S. citizens.
January 27, 2026 at 1:43 AM
Bovino's displacement is fraction of what needs to be done to replace ICE with something more humane - chump change. It needs to be ripped apart, root and branch. Any reform ought to begin with acknowledgement that immigrants of all kinds commit fewer crimes than born U.S. citizens.
Heartbreaking. It's enough now. It has to stop. youtu.be/Eu7BUk2TEPc?...
Alex Pretti’s Friend and Former Boss Describes Her Shock (w/ Dr. Aasma Shaukat)
YouTube video by The Bulwark
youtu.be
January 26, 2026 at 1:42 AM
Heartbreaking. It's enough now. It has to stop. youtu.be/Eu7BUk2TEPc?...
Pamela Bondi: We'll stop terrorizing your citizens if you hand over your voter rolls.
Why?
Also: How about those Epstien files? tick-tock ...
Why?
Also: How about those Epstien files? tick-tock ...
January 26, 2026 at 12:52 AM
Pamela Bondi: We'll stop terrorizing your citizens if you hand over your voter rolls.
Why?
Also: How about those Epstien files? tick-tock ...
Why?
Also: How about those Epstien files? tick-tock ...
The whole premise that immigrants are violent criminals was always a lie. It's worth remembering that: www.cato.org/policy-analy...
Illegal Immigrant Murderers in Texas, 2013–2022
Most research finds that all immigrants in the United States are less likely to commit crime or be incarcerated than native-born Americans.
www.cato.org
January 25, 2026 at 4:46 PM
The whole premise that immigrants are violent criminals was always a lie. It's worth remembering that: www.cato.org/policy-analy...
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Alex Pretti was an ICU nurse serving veterans. He died trying to protect protestors being assaulted. A group of anonymous & masked men fired chemicals into his face, beat him, disarmed him, and shot him in broad daylight in front of witnesses. Then his government smeared him & defended his murder.
January 24, 2026 at 11:44 PM
Alex Pretti was an ICU nurse serving veterans. He died trying to protect protestors being assaulted. A group of anonymous & masked men fired chemicals into his face, beat him, disarmed him, and shot him in broad daylight in front of witnesses. Then his government smeared him & defended his murder.